USN-1119-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches.

Description :

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not
correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit
this gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3904)

Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet
protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service via a
NULL pointer dereference, escalate privileges by overflowing the
kernel stack, and assign Econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces.
(CVE-2010-3848, CVE-2010-3849, CVE-2010-3850)

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly
validate memory ranges on 64bit kernels when allocating memory on
behalf of 32bit system calls. On a 64bit system, a local attacker
could perform malicious multicast getsockopt calls to gain root
privileges. (CVE-2010-3081)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly
shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to cause the system to
crash or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2954)

Brad Spengler discovered that the wireless extensions did not
correctly validate certain request sizes. A local attacker could
exploit this to read portions of kernel memory, leading to a loss of
privacy. (CVE-2010-2955)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the session keyring did not correctly
check for its parent. On systems without a default session keyring, a
local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a
denial of service. (CVE-2010-2960)

Kees Cook discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver did not
correctly validate memory regions. A local attacker with access to
the video card could read and write arbitrary kernel memory to gain
root privileges. (CVE-2010-2962)

Kees Cook discovered that the V4L1 32bit compat interface did not
correctly validate certain parameters. A local attacker on a 64bit
system with access to a video device could exploit this to gain root
privileges. (CVE-2010-2963)

Robert Swiecki discovered that ftrace did not correctly handle
mutexes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel,
leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3079)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the OSS sequencer device did not
correctly shut down. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the
system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-3080)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the CD driver did not correctly check
parameters. A local attacker could exploit this to read arbitrary
kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3437)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that SCTP did not correctly handle HMAC
calculations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic
that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-3705)

Kees Cook discovered that the ethtool interface did not correctly
clear kernel memory. A local attacker could read kernel heap memory,
leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3861)

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check
certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash
the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user.
(CVE-2010-3865)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation
incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this
to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3873)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation
did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit
this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3875)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel sockets
implementation did not properly initialize certain structures. A
local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory,
leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-3876)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the TIPC interface did not correctly
initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to
read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-3877)

Kees Cook and Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the shm interface did
not clear kernel memory correctly. A local attacker could exploit
this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4072)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the ivtv V4L driver did not correctly
initialize certian structures. A local attacker could exploit this to
read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4079)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly
initialize structure memory. A local attacker could create malicious
filters to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of
privacy. (CVE-2010-4158)

Dan Rosenberg discovered multiple flaws in the X.25 facilities
parsing. If a system was using X.25, a remote attacker could exploit
this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4164)

Steve Chen discovered that setsockopt did not correctly check MSS
values. A local attacker could make a specially crafted socket call
to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4165)

Vegard Nossum discovered that memory garbage collection was not
handled correctly for active sockets. A local attacker could exploit
this to allocate all available kernel memory, leading to a denial of
service. (CVE-2010-4249)

Nelson Elhage discovered that Econet did not correctly handle AUN
packets over UDP. A local attacker could send specially crafted
traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-4342)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the install_special_mapping function
could bypass the mmap_min_addr restriction. A local attacker could
exploit this to mmap 4096 bytes below the mmap_min_addr area,
possibly improving the chances of performing NULL pointer dereference
attacks. (CVE-2010-4346)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name
termination correctly. A local attacker could exploit this crash the
system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-4527)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size
of buffers. On non-x86 systems, a local attacker could exploit this
to read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-4529)

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